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Luton Town's Tom Lockyer celebrates scoring their side's second goal of the game during the Championship play-off semi-final second leg match at Kenilworth Road, Luton. Picture date: Tuesday May 16, 2023
YOU park your car on a dirt track in a rundown part of town. An air of neglect is as evident as the dilapidation. Overgrown weeds and stark, utilitarian concrete blocks feature next to weatherworn fences as plentiful detritus amplifies the cheerless vista.
Yet there is hope here. For this unprepossessing landscape is the site for Luton Town’s new ground, Power Court.
Luton is a club making headlines in the rarefied air of the Championship play-off final at Wembley Stadium at the end of this month, after finishing a notable third in the second tier of English football this May.
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